Community

Citizen of the Year Awards

Nominations now open for 2019 Australia Day Awards

Each year Council recognises the outstanding achievements of community members and organisations that motivate and inspire others through their vision, leadership, talent, humility and spirit of community service.

Help us to award and recognise the individuals or community groups that you believe make the Adelaide Plains Council (APC) a great place to live and work.

Being nominated for an Australia Day Award is a great honour, and is a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to someone who makes you proud to be an Australian.

Presented each year at the Australia Day breakfast, the awards are open to individuals and organisations that have made a noteworthy contribution to the community on a voluntary basis or have given an outstanding contribution exceeding their normal employment duties during the current year, and/or an outstanding service to a local community over a number of years.

The Australia Day Awards are open to all residents of Adelaide Plains Council. Contributions made to the community from non residents will be considered and persons or groups previously nominated but not having received an award can be renominated.

The 2019 Australia Day Awards are now open for nominations. The Australia Day Council Award Categories are:

Young Citizen of the Year

Presented to the most outstanding Young Citizen for the Adelaide Plains Council region

Citizen of the Year

Presented to the most outstanding citizen for the Adelaide Plains Council region

Community Event of the Year

Presented to the person or group who have staged the most outstanding community event during the year

In addition to the above awards, the Adelaide Plains Council presents two additional awards to reflect achievements in the community:

Community Group of the Year Award:

Presented to the group who have made a significant or beneficial contribution to the community during the year

Community Project of the Year Award:

For projects staged and/or completed between December 01 and November 30 in the previous year, be held entirely or predominantly in the Adelaide Plains Council area and be organised with the assistance of one or more community groups/members.

To nominate, complete the nomination form and return with any supporting attached documentation by 5pm, Friday 16 November 2018 to:

Adelaide Plains Council

PO Box 18

Mallala SA 5502

Nomination forms can be downloaded below, or can be collected from the Mallala Principal Office, Two Wells Service Centre or the Two Wells Library.

The Citizen of the Year Awards reward and recognise individuals and organisations that have made a noteworthy contribution during the current year, and/or give an outstanding service over a number of years, to a local community over and above normal employment duties.

Outstanding contribution and community service includes areas such as; education, health, fundraising, charitable and voluntary services, business, sport, arts, the environment, or any other area that contributes to the advancement and well-being of a community.

The Awards are presented by the Australia Day Council of South Australia and administered by the Adelaide Plains Council. Nominations are reviewed and winners selected by Council’s elected members at a general meeting of Council.

Nominations generally open each year on the 1st day of October and close on the 3rd Friday in November. Nominations may also be submitted through out the year via the Citizen of the Year website www.citizenoftheyear.com.au with those submissions going into the draw for that year. Nominations received after the closing date will be carried forward to the next nomination period in the following year.

Categories:

Citizen of the Year

Young Citizen of the Year

(nominees must be 30 years of age or less on 26 January in the year of the award presentation)

Community Event of the Year

In addition, the Adelaide Plains Council provide two additional awards in the following categories.